USH'S GAME EPISODE IV- 'CHASE'- DARK SIDE AREA

"Underground, eh?" Galder says. "Did he tell you where the entrance is? If so, we should get their immediately."

We look around, suddenly aware that we have no idea what this Arazi (nor, Ascar, I believe) looks like.

A force push would blow the top of the mound away but to really dig at it you would need to pull, but I assume that is what you want, Takuan, so I shall do it.

Concentrating, you pull at the disturbed earth and great chunks of it start to spill up and out of the mound until it is no more. You keep pulling away at the ground underneath until something is revealed- the bleached white of a skeleton.

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"I didn't get any idea of a specific place," says Jolanta. "The smugglers have a huge complex underground, Persis could be anywhere inside there. Maybe if we can find his ship? Then I could spike THAT, too..."

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Good point, Dak. You will have to rely on him being recognisable.

You settle down behind a power recharger to look at the scene outside ther nightclub. The bodies seem too small and frail to be human. You focus for a closer look.

Trade Federation Battledroids? Intriguing...

Odd that a bar would be employing TF droids as guards. Probably someone important inside. I see three options:

1)have fun and lay waste to the battle droids, alerting the entire complex and possibly getting ourselves killed in the process;

2)try to just get past the droids like normal people;

3)wait outside.

Ah, whe I said 'bodies' I meant it literally. The three droids you can see have been blasted and are lying inert near the entrance. The windows seem to have been shot out also.

(Do I know what his ship looks like?)

Hmm... I'm thinkin' "investigate quietly" looks good right now.

Yes, ya gotta be real quiet like...

Takuan slowly pulls away the dust near the skeleton, to have a clearer view. He approaches it, to have a clearer view.
some sort of graves... he thinks

Graves indeed... you walk over and investigate the skeleton. Everything organic has rotted away, though you can see tiny, tiny strands of some form of black clothing left around.

Then, with a shock, you notice something to one side of the corpse. It is a very old and rusted lightsabre.

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Galder, no. He didn't come here in it from Malastare- he would have had to have landed that ship in the Military Area and crossed the transfer point- doubtful he could have lugged a ship[ past without being noticed. No, any ship he has here in the civilian area you have not seen before.

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Dak, you suddenly get an uncomfortable feeling as from the bar emerges a man, holstering a blaster. The man is not tall but looks rather imposing with a grizzled face, curly unkempt hair, and a scar that cuts across one eye. He seems to be moving around the back of the bar.

It's at this point that you note that you are not the only person watching this man emerge from the bar. About fifty metres down the street another man is watching from the shadows. The reason you notice him is that his companion- a large, black Wookie, just like the one you saw at the starport, just moved to ask this other man something. and with your senses it is hard not to spot a wookie moving.

(Did Jolanta find out?)

"Hmm, do you think that's the Wookiee from the hangar?" Wraith asks Dak. "And who could that man be?"

Nope, Jolanta only discovered that the smugglers run all their work underground where it is invisble to the Republicans- she has no specifc info on Persis other than he is a known smuggler.

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That Wookie moved damn fast if it is the same one. It feels a little different- maybe a brother?

Makes sense that Arazi would keep a bodyguard around... I'm thinkin' we've found our men.

The grizzled man moves out of sight behind the nightclub. The other hiding man, and his wookie accomplice, stand up out of cover and seem to be preparing to move on.

"Alright, lets go see what we can find..."

Galder takes Jolanta outside and orders a taxi. He tells the driver to drive around the city, using the Force to persuade him to do it.

"We'll look for anything suspicious..."

EVERYONE is suspicious, is one problem. You consider to yourself- what would Persis be trying to do?

Smuggle, I suppose, as well as keep away from me because I wanted to kick his ass last game.

Hmm... he didn't grab that Astrolabe just to go back to a life of smuggling...

"I think we should get out of this Wookiee's view," Wraith says. He moves inside of the place.